Yesterday, Tachienlu had its fi real society wedding. Mr. Chow Chen-tong, a young official in the Central Authority, and Miss Chang Chi-chen. a young lady teacher in the local Central Government school, stood before Mr. Cheng Tong-fu. Special Commissioner on the Borde promised to be good, kind and conside rate to each other, No wedding in Tachienlu has probably attracted note attention. Mr. Chow old lend of Capt. Brace and was connected with the Y.M.C.A. in Chengtu He is quite a popular figure in the city and has travelled considerably throughout the Republic Miss Changs father teaches geography in a number of the schools and is also a member of local public bodies. Both Messrs, Cheng Tong-fu, and Chang Honz-kuei s father, are men of the old school and still adhere to the old Chinese classics, Mr. Chow was determined to invite the Europeans here and apparently his idea of a society wedding was that two organs should be the ceremony. one on courtyard and another on the other, and both to be played by foreign ladies. In any public function, if théfe is a chopstick or two short. it is a simply matier to go out into a bamboo grove and secure the necessary material, but this is not so easy where organs are concerned. There they were, however, organs to spare, and some of them had stop The Europeans in the city had no idea Tachienlu was such a musical town. But Mr. Chow and his Frontier Metropolis
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